One other thing I need to figure out is how to make the Hone Assistant media player be able to stream music to the line out of the PC. That will make it a very nice streamer for music I could copy on the SSD of the PC. If anyone have a way, let me know. So far I haven’t found my answer.
Im looking for a solution for that as well. Have HA running on a decently powerful PC platform and should be able to stream music to the L+R audio outputs. The PC audio outputs would then connect to a line input of the Control4 Matrix switch. Similar to the way the Control4 HC800 has two L+R line outputs for connection to the matrix switch. Does anyone know of a way to do this that would also work with Music Assistant? I searched and found reference to VLC, but wondering if there are simpler solutions for streaming media to the PC hosts built in audio line outputs…
For this, you could use something as simple as this from Amazon, if you don’t already have RCA outputs, to convert audio out to RCA via USB on your PC and then plug it into an input on the Matrix Amp. And then you can use something like System Bridge to integrate the PC with HA to have some level of control over it via automation.
For me, I have an Echo Dot with a 3.5mm to RCA cable plugged into the Matrix Amp and can use it in automations to play media from Amazon Music and Pandora via that device. You should also check out the Music Assitant addon for HA that supports several streaming services and can play media on some HA media players.
I also have a 3.5mm to RCA cable from my HA NUC box to the Matrix Amp so I can use like VLC Telnet to play media from HA, like doorbell sounds and announcements via CloudSay.